Check-holder.



B. MARSH. CHECK HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 23. ms.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 16, 1917.

Application filed. October 23, 1916. Serial No. 127,230.

To all whom it may 0011061 11: Be it known that I, BERT MARsrI, a 01111- zen of the United States, residing at Twin Falls, in the county of Twin Falls and State of Idaho, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Check-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

For the convenience of their customers, merchants in small towns and rural districts usually have on hand a number of blank checks. from the different banks in their town or locality but annoyance and inconvenience is caused and much time is frequently lost in trying to find a blank check on a particular bank when one is needed as the checks are liable to become misplaced or distributed among other papers in the merchants ofiice. The present invention, therefore aims to provide for the use of such merchants, a device adapted to seourely hold in position for convenient use, a number of check pads, the device being so constructed that it may be left lying upon the counter or hung in any convenient place so that a customer desiring to present a check in payment for merchandise may, in the use of the device, select a blank check on the particular bank in which he deposits his money and is not required to request a check of the merchant nor is the merchant put to the trouble of locating a blank check on the particular bank which the customer has in mind.

It is another aim of the invention to so construct the device that while the check pads will be securely held thereon, the means provided for holding them in place will not obscure any portion of the check nor will the check be mutilated in removing the same from the device.

Another aim of the invention is to so construct the holding means for the check pads that the same will securely hold a pad of any ordinary thickness and in fact will hold such a pad even to the last or bottom check thereof.

In the accompanying drawings,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the device embodying the present invention, and

Fig. 2 is a horizontal sectional View therethrough;

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional View through one end of one of the clips.

The device embodying the present invention includes a flat base 1 which may be of wood, metal, or in fact, of any material suitable for the purpose and of any desired size depending, of course,upon-the number of check. padswhich are to be held thereon. Also, this base may be of any desired outline and finished in any desired manner and it is preferably provided at its upper edge with an eye 2 to permit of its being hung upon a nail or hook if desired. In that embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawings, the device is designed to hold three check pads and for this purpose, three clips are provided upon the front face of the base 1 and are located one above another and suitably spaced. Each of these clips comprises an intermediate attaching portion indicated by the numeral 3 and this portion is secured by means of rivets 401' othersuitable fastening elementsto the said base 1. The clip is formed from resilient metal and extending from each end of the attaching portion 8 is a clip arm indicated by the numeral 5. It will be apparent by reference to Fig. 1 that the clip arms 5 extend in opposite directions and in mutual. alinement and each arm is provided at its lower edge and at its outer end with a downwardly extending clip finger 6 which is preferably substantially triangular or spur shaped and relatively narrow. In order that the clip arms 5 may be sprung upwardly so as to permit of the engagement of the upper edge of a check pad beneath the fingers 6, each arm is provided at its outer end with a finger knob indicated by the numeral 7.

In the use of the device, a check pad to be held is disposed upon the base 1 with its upper edge extending below the lower ends of the fingers 6 and then first one and then the other of the clip arms are lifted against their inherent resiliency and the said upper edge of the check pad is introduced beneath the respective fingers 6. Of course, when the finger knobs are released, the fingers will firmly grip the upper edges of the check pad and the pad will be securely held in place upon the base 1. However, the fingers being relatively narrow and being as stated substantially triangular or spur shaped will not obscure any portion of the face of the uppermost check nor will the check be mutilated when torn from the pad in the usual manner. Furthermore, the fingers offer minimum resistance to the removal of the uppermost check although they serve to securely hold the pad in place both as arelatively thick pad of checks and consequently even the last or bottom check of a pad may be used and need not be discarded.

By reference to Fig. 3 it will be observed that the clip fingers 6 are slightly curved toward their ends in the direction of the said base, so that the fingers will securely engage the face of a stack of checks and slipping of the checks will be more effectually prevented. I

Having thus described the invention what is claimed as new is:

1. In a device of the class described,a base, a clip having an attaching portion secured to the base, resilient clip arms extending from opposite ends of they said attaching Copies 0! this patent may be obtained for portion substantially in alinement with each other and having a normal tendency to bear against the face of the base, and a tapered fingerprojecting from one longitudinal edge of each of the clip arms substantially at the end thereof, the said fingers beingturned inwardly in the direction of their ends toward the said'face of the base.

2. In a device of the class described, a base, a clip having an attachingportion secured to the base, resilient clip arms extending from opposite ends of the said attaching portion substantially in alinement with each 7 other and having a normal tendency to bear against the face of the base, atapered finger projecting from one longitudinal edge of each of the clip arms substantially at the end thereof, the said fingers being turned inwardly in the'direction of their ends to-' ward the said face-of the base, and a finger piece upon the outer face of each clip arm adjacent the clip finger thereof.

In testimony whereof I affiX my signature.

BERT MARSH. [1,. 8.]

flve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents. Washington, D. 03 

